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EXHIBITION

New Exhibition At The Artist Room Shines A Spotlight On Methodologies Of Drawing

Inspired by the machinations and sheer frankness of dramatist, poet, philosopher and champion of the French avant-garde Antonin Artaud, The Artist Room's latest exhibition Situational Attempts brings together a series of works by a select group of up-and-coming artists that all challenge traditional notions of drawing in their work and, in the words of Philip Guston, 'some marks on paper'.

Curated by Billy Parker and acting as a loose response to a statement made by Artaud in his 1948 publication 50 Drawings to Murder Magic - ‘These drawings...are purely and simply the reproduction on the paper of a magical action that I have performed in true space with the breath of my lungs’ - Situational Attempts is more than a purely celebratory response to the act of drawing, it is an exhibition that gives itself freely to it, by totally and wholeheartedly leaning into the archaeology of rendering something unknown. Artists involved include Oluwatobiloba Ajayi, Archie Fooks-Smith, Hugo Hagger, Richard Maguire, Arthur Poujois, Katie Shannon, Mia Vallance and Joel Wyllie. For more information, click here.

FILM

SMUGGLER Director C Prinz Collaborates With Jeremy Pope On Film God Is Good

If you haven't heard of C Prinz, then get learning. Off the back of her ongoing collaboration with Charli XCX, the SMUGGLER director has now turned her attention to working with Jeremy Pope on a short film God Is Good, which provides an introspective lens into the search for spirituality and the ongoing quest for survival via Pope’s own lens as a black, queer man. Armed with a plethora of references from the best of the best including Diane Arbus, Derek Jarman and Olafur Eliasson, we promise you you're in for a treat. Weekend watch list? Completed it.

Watch the trailer for God Is Good here.

ALL DAY EVENT

The Queer Bloomsbury Festival Returns To Charleston

Including a number of talks, art-making events, and many performances of music, cabaret, drag, and more, this year's Queer Bloomsbury Festival is set to be bigger, better and queerer than ever. With a sharp start time of 14:00 BST on Thursday 14 September, expect the purest celebration of love and queer culture you've ever seen as guests Daniel Lismore, Tom Rasmussen, Jon Savage and more descend on Charleston to continue the Bloomsbury Group's legacy. Click here for more information and ticket sales.

EXHIBITION

SHOWstudio Wants You SHADOW-BANNED

For the record, we don't want anyone shadow-banned, particularly those whose art focuses on creative expression and acting as a staunch voice for change - which is why we've decided to curate the exhibition SHADOW-BAN - an exciting new show on illicit content in modern art, including existing and new paintings, sculpture, film, photography and performances by artists Peter Saville, George Rouy, Ray Caesar, Oh de Laval, Emma Stern, Sonny Hall, Dinos Chapman, Michaela Stark, Miles Greenberg, Pierre Molinier, Nobuyoshi Araki, Simon Foxton, Harley Weir and Von Wolfe, together with a collaboration with the Tom of Finland Foundation. Although the exhibition opens next week, we thought we'd put the most exciting show of the season on your radar a bit earlier than usual so we can invite you to reassess how your own morality is shaped by societal pressures and reconsider the nature of what makes an artwork 'obscene' - as well as the moral judgments which have led you there. So no, we don't want you shadow-banned but rather, the opposite. Stay tuned on SHOWstudio.com for more information coming soon.

FILM SCREENING

Nosakhari Film Festival Goes To London Fashion Week

Before we try and convince you to go to this event (not that we need to) we thought we would give a head's up to say it's sold out. And so if you were too late to the ticket queue, boo you and run faster next time because trust us, there will be a next time.

Although only in its second year ever, the Nosakhari Film Festival is collaborating with London Fashion Week to celebrate the best of fashion film in a special event at Rich Mix Cinema in Shoreditch on 12 September. The event is centred around Nosakhari’s creative director, Nosakhare Osadolor, and the premiere of a short animated film titled Becoming, which details Osadolor's life story - from his beginnings in the Kingdom of Benin, to his founding of the leather accessories brand. In addition, the festival will also showcase global filmmakers, converging fashion and moving images in this fantastical celebration of creativity and imagination.

EXHIBITION

A Room of One's Own and Everything Else

We stand by the fact that SHOWstudio's upcoming exhibition SHADOW-BAN is one of the most exciting openings this art season but that's not to say there isn't serious competition. Yes, we may have the likes of Peter Saville, Harley Weir and Tom of Finland on our list but who can blame a girl for supporting other artist's shows... especially when Château La Coste's upcoming exhibition Une Chambre à Soi (A Room of One's Own) has the likes of Tracey Emin and Louise Bourgeois in their line-up.

Conceptualised and curated by Margaux Plessy, whose inspiration for the show was born from her own experience of countless sleepless nights, Une Chambre à Soi acts as more of an exploration into the possibilities of what happens when the sun goes down and, as it turns out, quite a whole lot transpires.

The immersive exhibition will take place at Château La Coste from 14 September until 12 November. For more information, click here.

EXHIBITION

Artist Olu Ogunnaike Takes The Stage At Rose Easton To Ask, 'Is the soil right?'

It would make sense that Olu Ogunnaike's first commercial gallery solo exhibition in the UK would be titled Is the soil right?, particularly when you consider the spirit of Ogunnaike's practice which has long been concerned with ideas that don't just revolve around memory and identity, but also 'the connections between human and nature'. However, consider this show a significant pivot from the conceptual woodcuts of varying scales (often gleaned from trees) that Ogunnaike previously worked with, for these have been cast aside (if not only temporarily), in favour of large mirrored steel and charcoal screen-printed works, transforming Rose Easton into a mirrored maze that reflects the audience, encompassing all who pass by. This time around, Ogunnaike implies that the natural world isn't just made up of fauna and flora, it's also dependent on community and all that comes with it.

Is the soil right? - which is accompanied by a poem from James Massiah - opens to the public on 12 September and will be on until 26 October at Rose Easton in Bethnal Green, London.